" Life is not a movie. No happy ending is guaranteed. No wound is closed by magic. There had been lessons I had been refusing to learn. How if you aren’t letting somebody know they’re hurting you, they’ll keep doing it. How if you aren’t letting yourself know you’re hurting yourself, you’ll keep dating assholes. "

― Alida Nugent , Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood